Legal Atlas: Winner of the HiiL Innovating Justice Award 2012, category Innovative Ideas

Legal Atlas (LA) examines how countries incorporate (or do not) scientific and management best practices into their laws, and what impact this has. LA is founded on the premise that: 1) law is a primary management tool that defines much of what happens in society; 2) legal frameworks can be made more effective by responding to science and best practice lessons; 3) there is a large and continuing gap between what we know from science/management and what we do in legal contexts, and 4) this gap prevents or significantly worsens resource management across the globe, adversely affecting basic rights and causing instability.

The Open source legal knowledge platform was the winner of the 2012 Innovating Justice Awards Innovative Idea category held in The Hague on 2 November 2012.

The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) 2013

HiiL was set up in 2005 with financial support from the Dutch Government and The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research with the aim of generating new knowledge through fundamental and socially relevant research regarding the challenges faced by legal systems (especially at national level) as a result of the internationalisation of law.